Matilda Olkinaite – The Unlocked Diary (Scarce)
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What does it mean to open a murdered young poet’s diary 80 years after her death? This book is what would have been Matilda Olkinaitė’s early work, if it hadn’t been for the Holocaust. It collects intimate diary entries – a testament not only of her talent but also of the moral imperative captured in one of her poems: ‘and still I have another wish: to be a human’. Matilda Olkinaitė’s life ended in one of the first unmarked Holocaust pits in the Rokiškis district of Lithuania, in July 1941. Barely 19 at the time, she was a talented poet of great promise. ‘Quietly, without a sound, like fog in the twilight / a beautiful butterfly was extinguished forever…’ – were the words from a poem Olkinaitė wrote in 1937. Growing up in a Jewish pharmacist’s family, she spoke five languages but despite that chose to write only in Lithuanian. Olkinaitė was well known in her district, with her work published in the press on many occasions. “The Unlocked Diary” is the first attempt to bring her work out of oblivion by publishing it all in one volume. The book mainly consists of Olkinaitė’s notebook and a diary written between August 1940 and February 1941. Both the notebook and the diary were hidden away during the war and are the sole records of Matilda’s final years. Her works which were published between 1932 and 1940 are also included here. Irena Veisaitė, the professor who survived the Holocaust and preserved Olkinaitė’s writings, says that ‘the entire Lithuanian tragedy emerges in front of my eyes trough Olkinaitė’s work’.
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